Difference between revisions of "Mind"

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Full Title or Meme

1. If a carbon-based life form = Nature + Nurture.
2. If a silicon-based life form = Software + Data Store.

Context

The intersection between real-world minds and digital Entities with their Artificial Intelligence.

Problem

Philosophers and pundits of all types have been working a both the value of a definition and the definition itself for many generations. ^[1]

Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today. … Our minds keep us in touch with aspects of reality — such as objects, animals, and people — that our ancestors dealt with for millions of years. But as science and technology open up new and hidden worlds, our untutored intuitions may find themselves at sea.

…we have no mental tools to grasp [these subjects] intuitively. We depend on analogies that press an old mental faculty into service, or on jerry-built mental contraptions that wire together bits and pieces of other faculties. Understanding in these domains is likely to be uneven, shallow, and contaminated by primitive intuitions.

Solution

Minds all come with some sort of self-aware sub-system that knows when it needs something else and can reach out to Knowledge coded in some form by other life forms.

References

1. Brain
2. ↑ Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate.